Technomage wrote on Jan 7^th, 2020 at 11:35am:


There have been others. I wish they were still around.

krakattak wrote on Jan 6^th, 2020 at 8:31pm:


Perhaps I missed the dev post you're referring to.  I remember seeing Lynn say 33% chance to get A named item on elite.  I don't recall reading that all potential named items had an even distribution chance. 

Got a link?

5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 7^th, 2020 at 10:52am:


You really have no idea how this works do you.

The "loot tables" are on the server-side. The only people with access to that code is Turbine, SSG and a select few others.

The only ones claiming to have recent "loot tables" are the devs, and not only are they frequently changed, but even the pre-compiled code gets devs conflicting statements.

Ok, Found the item (been passed to me). It only took me like 50 runs


Yesterday I ran:
Tethyamar chain on reaper, 5 quests and no named
White Plume Mountain on reaper, no named (including the optional chests)
Sharn chain 1 on reaper, 5 quests and 1 named (found on third 3rd quest)

So it took 9 quests to find a named on the ninth one.

Let's run the formula once again but with 8 runs instead of 9

1 - (1 - P)^N
1 - (0.67)^8
1 - 0.04 = 0.96

The chances of finding a named in 8 quests using the 33% stated by devs is 96%. Took me 9 runs. No matter how you slice it, it's virtually impossible that a rare occurrence keeps repeating itself. At what point you can suspect that maybe it's not bad RNG but something you're not aware of is at play?

This is not a one time bad streak but just another in a long run and I'm not the only one. Statistically speaking this is an anomaly, math works in only one way (the right one). It is entirely possible I live in a universe where I only happen to get experience the rare events in a single independent system but it is like billions of billions of billions of times more likely that said system is not using the "33 %" chance of finding a non specific named in a quest.

Someone has to be at the wrong end of the bell curve.

Artorias wrote on Jan 6^th, 2020 at 3:29pm:


Lynnabel is full of shit, I am quite sure Rodrak said Toee has 5% named drop on elite (and then +1% per skull on reaper).

Now it is possible that the 33% chance is a "special table" that includes :
1, masterful items with special effects
2, tomes and or
3, ddo store items
4, and the named loot table

So it is possible that her 33% chance is in fact anywhere between 8-15%. By turdbin/SSG standards, this is not the same as misleading the consumer.

m4lacka wrote on Jan 24^th, 2020 at 2:55am:

Lynn was refering to newer quest loot tables - certainly everything after ravenloft has that feel about it.  I think when the last major standard loot revision was done, that was when they instituted the 33% special loot table. 
They didn't go back and do that on the older quests. 

I expect that when older quests are looked at and brought up to date and the loot revised that's when the 33% is instituted on them.  However red fens as well as the up and coming catacombs and delera's chains have special loot mechanisms where the named loot is in the quest givers end lists so I expect that's not happening

Rare should be Rare

To have all Named Loot after 5 runs is not the goal of a Rare thing.
when DDo was starting people are happy with a +2 shock or whatever weapon. Today +5 Vorpal metalline and keen.
and after several runs you have all things for endgame.
noone are really happy to find something good.
and dont blame lynn or cordo. they keep ddo alive, and only post destructive comments, dont help.

Magneto wrote on Jan 25^th, 2020 at 10:49am:


You've hit a new level of gay retardation.  Congrats.  You've been made fire proof as your reward.  Please jump in the nearest fire ASAP to test your new ability (it's totally cordo approved).

higgildypiggildy wrote on Jan 26^th, 2020 at 7:02am:

You see the crap named loot not the good ones.

Magneto wrote on Jan 25^th, 2020 at 10:49am:

There were the criers who demanded the reroll using shard on chests.
Now, devs are "balancing" quests based on performance by people who bought/cheater/farmed the very best stuff and have false statistics for "normal" performance.

I don't blame Lynn. I disagree a lot, but they have passion for their job and don't seem to be "out to get the player"... they are just completely lost on what D&D used to be.

I agree that cordo only posts destructive comments. 

Flav wrote on Jan 7^th, 2020 at 12:01pm:


if you used triple parantheses for the you know who, it would sound kinda nazi.